If you are considering turning a shipping container into a garage, there are a few things you should consider first. Here's what you need to know.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PHOENIX — Some shipping containers that once stood on Arizona’s border to keep people out are now being converted into tiny homes ...

Like many curious children, Paul Rathnam’s kids love to play with cardboard boxes, building creative structures out of the empty packaging. Rathnam sees a parallel between their recreation and what he ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Anchored off the Southern California coast, many people see a record-setting backlog of container ships. But others, like Amanda Gattenby of Crate Modular, see opportunity. "I ...

A new type of housing is coming soon to a college campus in North Little Rock. The North Little Rock City Council voted ...

PALM CITY, Fla. (CBS12) — With the price of housing going through the roof in Florida, one company is getting creative to make living more affordable. They’re also giving several convicts a second ...

For now, it's just a sliver of land and an old abandoned house at the corner of Bumpas and Fitzhugh streets on McKinney's east side. But if all goes according to plan, town homes built from shipping ...

In the era of globalization, it's becoming increasingly difficult to get settled in one place. The concept of portable cabin was introduced for multiple purposes such as site offices, security guard ...

La Jollan Cory Segall has begun an initiative to bring low-cost, accessible housing to homeless people by converting shipping containers into portable homes. The project is called Strategic Habitats, ...

Converting shipping containers into homes is something that's been done successfully and stylishly for several years now, but a developer in South Africa is taking the process to another level with a ...